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Post by captaggie on Jul 26, 2011 10:16:16 GMT -5
FAMU down to 5 finalists for baseball coach By St. Clair Murrain Florida A&M will select its next baseball coach from a list of candidates that president James Ammons said Thursday makes up "a very rich pool" from which one would soon get an offer. Ammons said he's interviewed the five finalists and he and athletic director Derek Horne will make their final evaluations before naming a head coach. "The athletic director and I will get together over the next few days and make an offer in the very near future," Ammons said while leaving a press conference on another matter. FAMU has been without a permanent head coach since the end of the 2010 season when Robert Lucas was fired. His assistant Brett Richardson run the team as interim coach last season, taking the Rattlers to the postseason after missing the cut the previous year. The list of candidates includes: former Florida A&M and minor league outfielder Willie Brown (who recently resigned as head coach at Maclay High School), Santa Fe Community College assistant Bruce Larkins, former Bethune-Cookman University assistant Joel Sanchez, Keith Shumate (who recently resigned as head coach at North Carolina A&T) and Richardson... Entire article: www.tallahassee.com/article/20110722/FAMU05/107220338/FAMU-down-5-finalists-baseball-coach?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p |
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 26, 2011 10:20:50 GMT -5
wow! never guessed he'd be interested in another hbcu job. that speaks volumes about the way he felt he was being treated at a&t...
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Post by DECKS on Jul 26, 2011 10:30:38 GMT -5
wow! never guessed he'd be interested in another hbcu job. that speaks volumes about the way he felt he was being treated at a&t... I agree. I just knew he was done with HBCU's. Obviously he was frustrated with A&T. |
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Post by ohsixrain on Jul 26, 2011 11:03:55 GMT -5
WOW!
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Post by Bigboy on Jul 26, 2011 13:10:15 GMT -5
Baseball and Florida go hand and hand! He probably feel that his chances of winning will be better in the state of Florida, HBCU or not.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2011 14:05:00 GMT -5
So he would be leaving us for a similar situation. Talk about a lateral move. Neither FAMU nor NC A&T will spend money he would desire on that sport.
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Post by trues on Jul 26, 2011 15:37:19 GMT -5
why was shumate so unhappy with A&T?
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 26, 2011 16:45:00 GMT -5
i'm thinking his budget was way under funded and he was somewhat limited to recruiting only within the state of north carolina. he definitely turned lemons into lemonade while at a&t. we really have a long way to go to get our athletic department in order from top to bottom.
i'm just hoping that our administration will see fit to place a priority on our neglected athletic department. we'll have a very hard time finding a baseball coach who's as good as shumate was...
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Post by aggie on Jul 26, 2011 21:05:41 GMT -5
i'm thinking his budget was way under funded and he was somewhat limited to recruiting only within the state of north carolina. he definitely turned lemons into lemonade while at a&t. we really have a long way to go to get our athletic department in order from top to bottom. i'm just hoping that our administration will see fit to place a priority on our neglected athletic department. we'll have a very hard time finding a baseball coach who's as good as shumate was...we won't if our athletic director has any knowledge at all. There are some very good candidates that have applied that are easily better than shumate. what our athletic admins do remains to be seen...and it is beyond ridiculous why they haven't named anyone. |
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 26, 2011 23:04:59 GMT -5
i'm thinking his budget was way under funded and he was somewhat limited to recruiting only within the state of north carolina. he definitely turned lemons into lemonade while at a&t. we really have a long way to go to get our athletic department in order from top to bottom. i'm just hoping that our administration will see fit to place a priority on our neglected athletic department. we'll have a very hard time finding a baseball coach who's as good as shumate was...we won't if our athletic director has any knowledge at all. There are some very good candidates that have applied that are easily better than shumate. what our athletic admins do remains to be seen...and it is beyond ridiculous why they haven't named anyone. bcu just named their new baseball coach today and i don't believe famu has named theirs yet. we're in good company... |
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 27, 2011 8:05:00 GMT -5
we can't simply hire just any baseball coach. because of our negligence of our athletic department, we have to find a baseball coach who can turn lemons into lemonade like shumate did. we have to find someone who is not only a good baseball coach, but also is able stretch a "meager" budget a very long ways and operate under minimum support from the administration.
it does us no good to hire a great baseball coach if he's unable to run a program that receives very little support from the administration. i think hilton has done a pretty decent job so far with the coaches he has hired to this point. i'd rather he take his time and get it right than rush into hiring the wrong person. i hope i'm wrong, but i don't think we're gonna find too many candidates who can operate under our circumstances and be more successful than shumate was...
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Post by DECKS on Jul 27, 2011 8:19:33 GMT -5
i'm thinking his budget was way under funded and he was somewhat limited to recruiting only within the state of north carolina. he definitely turned lemons into lemonade while at a&t. we really have a long way to go to get our athletic department in order from top to bottom. i'm just hoping that our administration will see fit to place a priority on our neglected athletic department. we'll have a very hard time finding a baseball coach who's as good as shumate was...we won't if our athletic director has any knowledge at all. There are some very good candidates that have applied that are easily better than shumate. what our athletic admins do remains to be seen...and it is beyond ridiculous why they haven't named anyone. No one has been named because we are short on $$. I wouldn't be surprised if we waited another couple months. Can't spend what we don't have. |
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Post by aggie1 on Jul 27, 2011 10:59:30 GMT -5
A&T let a very outstanding baseball coach get away because they failed to support him properly.
Our athletic department should be ashamed as to how they did not support this coach. If he does
go to FAMU or any other HBCU in the MEAC we better look out. He can recruit and coach. I hope our new AD will continue to hire good coaches in every field and support them better than we have in the past. Why is it that Eaves is still coaching here with his poor a$$ record - almost 9 years now.
Shame - Shame - Shame.
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Post by aggie on Jul 27, 2011 13:39:10 GMT -5
Trust me, there are at least 3 qualified, very good coaches that have applied for this job that can and have worked with meager budgets and limited support. Any of them would be an upgrade over Shumate- recruiting-wise, baseball-wise, coaching-wise. Not saying Shumate was all that terrible, but these guys are better.
If money is truly that big of an issue, then maybe A&T needs to discontinue that program. Hell, Univ of California went to Omaha this year and was/is on the brink of being cut altogether.
Yes it would be a tough decision, but sometimes you do what you got to do.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 27, 2011 14:04:09 GMT -5
Trust me, there are at least 3 qualified, very good coaches that have applied for this job that can and have worked with meager budgets and limited support. Any of them would be an upgrade over Shumate- recruiting-wise, baseball-wise, coaching-wise. Not saying Shumate was all that terrible, but these guys are better. If money is truly that big of an issue, then maybe A&T needs to discontinue that program. Hell, Univ of California went to Omaha this year and was/is on the brink of being cut altogether. Yes it would be a tough decision, but sometimes you do what you got to do. you're about the only bdv poster that i can recall who has a negative impression of shumate. why is that so? did he insult you or somethin'? or did you have a relative on the team who he wouldn't give playing time to? i hope you're right about the prospective coaches and i hope hilton will pick a good one who can be successful despite our flaws... |
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